The crowd re-seated. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoCardamom is next to Mrs. Lu, and on the other side is Lin Zifeng, the general of Jingyuan, and the second brother, Lin Ziran, the editor of the Hanlin Academy.

Mrs. Lu took Cardamom's hand, like a kind and gossipy old grandmother, and asked mysteriously:

"Cardamom, what kind of celebration do you want? Have a tea party and feast your boudoir friends? Invite the team to sing? Or do you want to buy some antique treasures, rouge gouache, and the four treasures of the study? Tell the eldest lady that you will get your wish! ”

Before Cardamom could speak, her sister Lin Zisu on the side spoke out against it first.

"Auntie, you know, my sister's least favorite thing is rouge gouache, and the last thing she lacks is the four treasures of the study. Antiques and treasures are nothing special to her like tables, chairs and benches. I've watched a lot of drama with your old man, and my friends in the boudoir have all defeated her subordinates this time, so I'm afraid that she will be an enemy at this time, and she will have a tea party and a banquet, and people won't think we're demonstrating, right? Auntie, none of your proposals are good!"

Her voice was crisp, and she spoke like pouring beans, crackling, and without breathing, she finished a passage without adding points, and the words were clear and unambiguous. Mrs. Lu couldn't help but laugh.

"You girl, I just said a few words, and you replied to me so much, and you denied all my words. Cardamom, tell me about it yourself? ”

Cardamom also smiled, and turned her gaze to Lin Zifeng, a rare relaxed and coquettish.

"It's rare for the eldest brother to come back and listen to the eldest brother."

Lin Zifeng looked at her unpretentious smile, thinking of his father's hints, his heart ached, and his sonorous and powerful voice unconsciously softened.

Lin Ziran saw that his expression was gloomy, and he didn't feel a move in his heart, and turned his gaze to him, as if he had realized.

"Do you want a gift from your eldest brother?"

"Naturally!!"

Cardamom didn't seem to notice the abnormality of the eldest brother, and said happily. Lin Zisu and Lin Zizhan on the side both shouted.

"I also want a gift from my eldest brother!"

"I want it too!"

"Don't worry, don't worry, everyone has a gift."

The servants brought in the gifts that Lin Zifeng brought back to everyone one by one, all of which were mountain treasures from outside the Guan. The hall suddenly became a pot of porridge.

It was getting late, and Cardamom stepped out of the hall and walked silently towards the second lady's room. Lin Zifeng stopped her from behind.

His face was completely hidden in the shadows of the house, and Cardamom couldn't see his expression clearly.

"Big brother, thank you for giving me the snow fox skin."

What is the sudden apprehension in my heart? The eldest brother's desire to speak at this time stopped, what exactly does it imply that something is about to happen?

"That...... If you like it, it's fine. Originally, I raised a Haidongqing and wanted to give it to you, but... I'm afraid you won't be able to raise it in the future. ”

Flying as freely as an eagle was her ideal, and he had amazed his sister's ambitions. However, in the future, she can only be an eagle with broken wings, and she no longer belongs to the boundless sky.

"Cardamom, you...... Is it worth it? ”

Cardamom's chest froze, and she felt like she was about to stop breathing.

"Big brother, I don't understand what you're saying."

"You know, but your heart doesn't let you understand."

Cardamom was silent. Looking up at the sky, the sky is clear and the moon is clear, and the moon hangs on the branches, so close that it seems to be able to hear the voices of the people in the moon palace.

"Why did you go to the competition?"

"Doesn't my brother want me to be the best among all talented women?"

"This so-called 'Qionghua Banquet' for the selection of talented women is essentially held by the Queen Mother for the emperor to select concubines. You didn't want fame or fortune, and you didn't want to enter the court, so why did you bother to participate in the selection for the sake of the second lady's wishes? ”

"Big brother, I've worked hard. Hey......"

That sigh came from the bottom of my heart, as if the bright moonlight had suddenly become dull.

"I know you must not have done your best to take the test. But..."

"I'm just a third place, there are two people in front, Ouyang Jie and Su Yimei, I may not be selected!"

"Cardamom, do you think that in terms of background and talent, who among the three of you is more likely to be favored by the royal family?"

Thinking of the situation when she was received by the queen, Cardamom's body stiffened even more.

"I ...... Big brother, what do you know? ”

"Today, the emperor received me and my father."

“……”

"The emperor mentioned your name."

Emperor Shotoku, a distant man, has always existed only in the words of his father and brother, as well as in all kinds of rumors in the market. What did he mention her for? She is just a small folk woman, even if she is the daughter of the prime minister's house, she is still thousands of miles away from the royal nobles!

Just like the queen mother high up in the pavilion, the magnificence is dizzying and intimidating.

“……”

"I'm afraid, tomorrow the holy decree will come."

Divine decree? What holy decree? The Divine Decree was no stranger to her family, but what kind of Divine Decree related to her? Do you want the eldest brother to tell her so solemnly?

Cardamom only felt that she had begun to experience auditory hallucinations. She seemed to hear the sound of her own breathing echoing around her, and the chirping of the autumn insects, the sound of the autumn wind blowing the fallen leaves, suffocating.

When she walked into the second lady's room with stiff steps, Cardamom kept thinking about Lin Zifeng's question: Is it worth it?

For the sake of the second lady's vanity, is it worth it for her to indulge herself in a cage from which she will never recover?

However, how can all this be judged whether it is worth it or not?

's father is the left minister of the government and the opposition, and the two brothers are the emperor's right-hand men, as his eldest daughter, how can he escape the fate of marriage?

"Second lady!"

The second lady looked at her daughter, who had kept a distance from him in front of her, and a crack finally bloomed on her always cold face.

"Tell me, what's your idea?"

With a "snap", she threw the poem manuscript in her hand in front of Cardamom. Cardamom bent down to pick up the poem and saw that it was her poem at the "Qionghua Banquet".

"In a small poetry meeting, even Su Yimei from the south can be ranked in front of you! I took such pains to teach you, is it just to make you embarrassed to be embarrassed when I conceived and gave birth to you in October? Did you deliberately write something that was substandard? ”

Cardamom suddenly wanted to laugh.

In order to satisfy her mother's vanity, she buried her freedom, but what she got was her mother's reproach and suspicion of her intentions.

What the second lady cares about is not whether her daughter is good enough, but that her daughter is defeated by the person she hates.

Because, Su Yimei, who is at the top of the list, won her by the eldest lady Lu's distant relatives in her hometown in the south, the adopted daughter of the Lu family in Jiangnan.